# 2018 is blockchain's 1996-98: no killer app, no browser yet

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-06-15
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** S1E2 - Greg Osuri (CryptoChange.News)
- **Watch at:** 00:17:34 — https://archive.org/details/CryptoEp2GregOsuri
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2018-06-15-2018-is-blockchain-s-1996-98-no-killer-app-no-brow-eebq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "2018 is blockchain's 1996-98: no killer app, no browser yet," S1E2 - Greg Osuri (CryptoChange.News), 15 Jun 2018, 00:17:34. https://archive.org/details/CryptoEp2GregOsuri

## Quote — verbatim

> We are in like the 98, I would think, of the .com era... or probably even 96. We still don't have the killer app, except for Bitcoin. We still don't have the browser for the blockchain, right? Browser being the killer app for the World Wide Web... We still are in the BBS level.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His dot-com analogy (spans into the 00:18:15 block), paired with the contrarian "I wish Bitcoin did not hit 20,000" (00:16:51) because the price run attracted misaligned speculators; corrections "weed out the bad intent."